Guest Blogger II

Finn, cracking himself up

Once upon a time there was a boy named Owen and he was made out of  cars and some letters and some bees and some computers.  His head was made out of cheetahs some cushions, some bednets, some horns, some brains and some walls.

When he walked down to stores he bumped into a pig pen.  He was crying and crying and he couldn’t find his mommy. So he went back home and then he still couldn’t find his mommy.  So he went out again for a walk. He was looking for the River Ocean-Floor-Ocean-Floor. (There were two names, that is the number two name.  The first name is Ocean-Ocean-Ocean-Floor River.)

At the walk he made a horn and he made a bednet and the bednet said “I can help you find this river.” He found the river by walking through the forest, drove his car, walked again and found a street.  He went across the street and came to the river. 

He wanted to cross the river but he needed a shark to cross the river. 

The shark just swam up to the side of the river where Owen was, and said

“Jump in my mouth and I will lead you there; no one will find you in the deep forest!”

Owen jumped in his mouth and they swam across the river.  He jumped out of the shark’s mouth and walked through the forest to find another cheetah to go onto his head.

The shark said “woo-hoo you lost the winners.” and the shark gave him a clap! 

Owen went back home and his mom was at Seattle and he came back home to her.

Guest Blogger

I am Finny Peter Finch Jennings.  I am writing a story today.  First I want to tell that we had crepes today even we have had a picnic outside one day.  In this picture I am painting a buffalo on the wall in the garage.  It's called a carport.  In the carport we have bikes, daddy's bike, owen's bikes, mommy's bikes, a trailer from daddy's bike and some cars!  I get to ride in the trailer - people say hi when they see me in the trailer and they laugh and laugh and laugh.

I am painting a buffalo and I painted a warthog.  These are my favorite animals.  Owen is painting a cheetah chasing an impala. Owen's favorite animal is a cheetah.  My other favorite animal is a teeth dolphin.  The End.

Poisson Rouge

One day when I came home from school Finny was playing a game on the computer!  If you want to play the games go to:  www.poissonrouge.com

You will find LOTS and LOTS of games on it....you just have to explore and see what you can do.  I like to click on the submarine and then I play all the games on those pages.  When Finny and I play together we take turns because it's even fun to watch someone else play.

Poisson Rouge means "Fish Red" in french -- usually the description word (adjective) is after the noun (like a person name or place or a thing) so it really means "Red Fish."  You don't have to know french to do the games but if you want to do some french lessons, they are on the 'castle' games -- spanish, and english too!

art symmetry

Finny and I were painting on paper with paintbrushes this weekend.  We were using every color and we were mixing colors.  I have been making paper stencils by folding a piece of paper up and drawing a design and then cutting out the design (like how you cut out a snowflake design).  When you open the paper it is a beautiful shape and it looks like a spider a lot of times that I do it!  I had a whole bunch of stencil cutouts that we painted and glued onto the painted paper (even using Finny's papers). We put them on the matt with tacky, and mom and I put them into frames.  Don't they look nice?!  What do you think they look like?

Difference of Victoria Falls

It is June and a while ago we went to Livingstone. We went driving.  The drive was a little bit faster than last time when we went with Papa and Grandma and Nana in October 2008 because the road was better.  We saw the new road they are building and also most of the big potholes were filled.  The drive was about 6 hours and thirty minutes.

When we got there we were going to stay at Maramba River Lodge but we stayed at the Zambezi Sun instead; that way we could just walk to the falls instead of having to drive.  And so we DID walk to the falls.....but there was a difference!

This time if you wanted to cross the bridge you would get SOAKED and you could see lots and lots of mist going UP but not the water going DOWN.  You could see rainbows -- we saw two at the same time.   When we came in October it was dry and super hot.  It had not rained in Zambia since March -- in 8 months -- and the Zambezi River was not very full.

We did not take a lot of pictures because mom's camera would get wet.  Daddy broke a camera when he came to Livingstone once before we moved to Zambia.